Sentences with phrase «first nongovernmental»

sponsors intercultural exchange programs for students in 69 countries, claims it is the first nongovernmental organization to negotiate an exchange for secondary teachers with the Chinese Ministry of Education.

In May SpaceX's Dragon became the first nongovernmental vehicle to dock with the ISS.

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In October, Speakable launched its first product, the Action Button, which adds to relevant news articles options to take a poll, sign a petition, or donate to vetted nongovernmental organizations and nonprofits.

Dynasty is the first science - supporting nonprofit to fall victim to Russia's 2012 «foreign agent» law, which aims «to crack down on nongovernmental organizations focused on human rights and free elections,» Vladimir Pokrovsky wrote Wednesday at ScienceInsider.

Through an arrangement facilitated by two nongovernmental organizations in North Korea and China with help from journalist Richard Stone at Science, Hammond and his colleague Clive Oppenheimer became the first Western scientists to visit the DPRK's volcano observatory, and a historic partnership was launched.

My background — a bachelor's degree in political economy of natural resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology — led to positions first in government and then at an environmental nongovernmental organization.

Mark Moore, a leading expert in criminal justice, police, management, nongovernmental organizations and nonprofit management, has been appointed the first Herbert A. Simon Professor in Education, Management, and Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Graduate School of Education effective July 1, 2009.

The GSA is the first global initiative of more than 70 governments, corporations, educational institutions, and nongovernmental organizations in more than 50 countries and regions working with the New York Academy of Sciences to identify the world's best STEM talent and create a global network of promising students and noted scientists.

The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is an international panel of scientists and scholars who first came together in 2003 to provide an independent review of the climate science cited by the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In 2009, the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change joined the original two sponsors to help produce Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), the first comprehensive alternative to the alarmist reports of the IPCC.